As social media classify and rank our ‘memories’, what will this mean for the way we remember?

Beer, David and Jacobsen, Benjamin (2021) As social media classify and rank our ‘memories’, what will this mean for the way we remember? Impact of Social Sciences Blog (23 Jul 2021). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

There are few things more intimately personal than our memories. However, as more of human experience becomes mediated through social media, memories have become a significant resource for social media companies to exploit. Drawing on their new book Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory, David Beer and Ben Jacobsen explore how a social media logic has intertwined itself into our memories and the implications this has for how we remember individually and collectively.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Authors
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Date Deposited:	07 Sep 2021 15:00
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 11:13
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/111700

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